Word: winner
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...trouble following the train of thought. Kurton takes stage, joking, “Every divide between the Two Cultures is bridgeable, except this one: humanists write out their talks and scientists extemporize.” With his mixture of humorous anecdotes and general charisma, Kurton emerges the clear winner. Modernity, Powers illustrates, shuffles the artist’s and the scientist’s roles: as the artist appeals to reason, the scientist to emotion and narrative.This conflation of the sciences and the humanities is perhaps the most identifiable characteristic about Powers’s work, be it via virtual...
...sort themselves into place, making it almost necessary to read the book at least twice. There are very few discontinuities, and those that exist don’t hurt the text in any way. But Lethem’s aptitude with the pen has never been in question. A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for his novel “Motherless Brooklyn,” he has already established himself as an elite member of the community of American fiction. Where “Chronic City” falters is in its failure to adequately deal with...
...Willis looking young and blond, his face miraculously unlined. This is how he might actually appear today if he'd stayed in TV - and if he'd been a much less daring and dangerous actor. But the spectacle won't lure enough customers to make Surrogates a big-money winner...
...year’s bestselling pop science book, “Outliers.” Reaching the top levels of a chosen field, he explained, simply requires a combination of hard work and luck—with a minimum of 10,000 hours of practice, anyone can be a winner...
...started celebrating as television broadcasters published the results of exit polls that seemed to confirm its victory. At 6:47 p.m., Edmund Stoiber, the leader of the CDU's Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) and a Chancellor candidate for both, declared himself the winner. "One thing is clear already," he said, beaming. "The CDU, the CSU - we have won the election!" And so it seemed, based on the tally of existing seats the Christian Democrats had snared. But when the official results came in later that night, it became clear that the CDU and CSU parties...